But he wasn't a great wordsmith. This statement makes me question how much you even know. While he may not have been the most moving or poetic speaker, if you knew anything about his command of English you would beg forgiveness for this statement. His writing in LotR has subtlety few, if any, will ever fully understand. I got to see his friend and colleague, Tom Shippey, the man who inherited Tolkien's chair at Oxford give a lecture on "LotR and language" and the respect he held for Tolkien was clear and without bound. The most significant thing people came away with from that lecture is how little most of us know about English relative to Tolkien, and this audience was mixed college student and Ph.D holding faculty.
As a Texas-Ex, I have to add "How about them Longhorns!"
I know this is only in a lab but I've been of the opinion for a long time that the solution to some of our problems would come from the biology side of the house. The CO2 content of the atmosphere could be significantly reduced if we could only turn CO2 gas into solid carbon. We don't really even know *how* to do this and yet simple plants do it every day using nothing more expensive than solar power. A bacteria or algae that consumes CO2 and produces fuel would be the ultimate in low impact yet renewable fuel. It isn't perpetual motion because it uses energy from the sun but last time I checked that isn't running out, situated in violent third world companies or consuming any non-renewable resources that have to be dug or pumped out of the ground.
In the cool list I have to go with Circus Atari over Breakout. My personal favorite was Kaboom! in part because I have yet to meet someone who has beaten my 45K high score. I know people are out there that have done it but I haven't met one yet.
In the real world, in 2006 the top 1% of income earners made 18% of the income yet paid 25% of the federal taxes, the top 5% made 33% and paid 43% and the top 10% made 44% and paid 55%. It looks to me like 10% of the population paid more than the other 90%, but don't let facts get in the way of your populist propaganda.
I don't think one can "understand" the other. My guess would be that they would discontinue new models of one or the other, let the subscriber base of the loser decrease through attrition over time and then eventually offer rebates to the remaining subscribers to switch.
When I originally heard that this was going to happen I assumed it was to respond to the ability of Linux to run on older technology because it doesn't try to include everything and the kitchen sink into every install. Modularity cannot help but require a smaller resource footprint.
My second idea of why they would do it this way would be stability/security. If each piece has to exist on its own it should be easier to produce good code which should be both more stable and less exploit prone.
XM offers a service to pilots called XM Weather - Aviation that is invaluable to private pilots. Even though it takes a pretty high end GPS receiver to get the data (>$2k), the value of seeing winds aloft, freezing temperatures and storms can sometimes means the difference between literal life and death and there is no real time alternative.
I really don't think that at this time satellite radio offers any real competition to AM/FM radio because most people don't want to pay for radio when a decent alternative is available for free. For some, such as OTR truckers or long distance commuters, having continuity of radio programming is pretty nice.
If satellite radio was a service the general population couldn't do without I'd be very concerned about a monopoly situation but it isn't. From my POV, anything that keeps the XM weather active is okay by me.
The certification process probably makes the design safer, but it also disincentives innovation in ways that would horrify someone used to the rapid pace of consumer electronics This is a HUGE problem we have in General Aviation. A plane like a Cessna 310 twin engine airplane first flew in 1953 with engines that are extremely inefficient and underpowered relative to today's engines. Everybody (pilot, owner, passengers, world) would be better served by replacing the original engines with some that are of newer design that are safer, more powerful and burn less fuel, but since the plane was certified by the FAA in a particular configuration that is how it has to stay. Newer models can be produced but retrofitting is not looked upon kindly by the people who get to say whether or not a plane may leave the ground.
As long as High School chics dig guitar players there will ALWAYS be a demand for guitars. GH3 isn't an instrument, its a guitar shaped gamepad, and a very limited one at that. Gibson has about as much to fear from GHx as The French Laundry does from Swanson TV Dinners.
Actually, The Church does not support "The Rhythm Method," it supports Natural Family Planning. There is a significant difference and it is extremely effective when followed correctly, something that is no more difficult than remembering to brush one's teeth every morning.
The chutzpah is unbelievable.
I'd be more inclined to say "admirable." Given that it is estimated that more than 10% of Mexico's GDP comes from money sent back home from the US he's doing everything he can to improve his economy. Just think about his situation: he gets to govern a country with an income that goes up when people leave the country. People who are out of the country don't consume servives or materials and don't commit crimes. He should be doing everything he can to keep people coming across Mexico's southern border.
assuming you could do it fast enough This one has already been solved. As part of the braking process you transfer rotational energy to a flywheel in the car. Said flywheel then turns a generator whose output current cracks H20. I believe Formula 1 racing is considering using a flywheel to store energy and then give it back to the car to accelerate. If it is already in a flywheel it is now usable however one wishes.
This should give organized labor across the country a little bit of confidence. It should do no such thing. Many unions are collections of fundamentally replaceable people. Most of the Indians/Latinos/insert immigrant group here can be taught to perform most of the unionized skills like plumbing, automobile assembly,etc. These people create original material. Nobody can be "taught" to be a creative writer. You either are or you are not. Many unionized trades, while skilled, do not represent fundamental creation like writers do and there was only so much time that the public would put up with another lame reality program before it wrote off TV altogether.
Have you ever looked at our trade imabalance? If the US goes into a recession we stop buying from other countries. Sorry for not having more current numbers but our trade deficit in 2005 was around $800 Billion so it is probably pushing an even trillion now. That number is greater than the entire GDP of all but the top 10 or so economies around the world. If the US stops spending other countries get hurt in a hurry. How exactly do you expect IBM et al to sell to other countries when we aren't sending dollars their way with which to buy our products? As the US goes, so goes the world.
Yes, you are the only one. As a Sysadmin who has spent entirely too much time dealing with the effects of spam I would personally accept whatever responsibility required for the damage I would cause to someone who admitted to me that he was a spammer. I hope that the best thing that happens to him in prison is that he is given AIDS.
the people who made them actually received a living wage, unlike most workers today The people who make cars in the US today make much better than a "living wage." Part time workers at Ford make about $18.50 an hour, full time workers make $31.
As for "most workers today", the median family income in 2006 here in the US was $48,201. 80% of US households made $23K or more and a large number of the homes in the lower end were single income families.
"Most" people are doing just fine.
A large chunk of the US economy is now "intangibles", basically fairy dust...complete lack of recognition of US copyrights and patents would go a long way I know if it feels good to shoot from the hip but next time you should check your facts. Take a look at the Fortune 500 list of companies. Very few, if any, of the companies in the first 100 would be hurt if any kind of large "IP doesn't apply" judgement were to be handed down. Oil, cars, financial services, insurance and construction make up the top 20 and last time I checked we still can't download gas for our cars or even the car in which to put the gas. Not a single predominantly software or entertainment company (IBM makes money on consulting services and hardware) can be found even in sight of the top of the list. MS, the company everyone loves to hate only makes #49. Cisco is #75, Merck is #99. While it is true that a decent percentage of the US GDP is service related it would take a lot more than something like this to have any impact on the US economy.
Assuming (and not such a big assumption) that other advanced species in the universe will emit detectable radiation it is fairly certain that no such entities exist in any close proximity to use. Just for argument's sake, lets say that intelligent life exists near Proxima Centauri. The farthest into space we have travelled is to the edge of the heliosphere, a mere 14.4 light hours away. That trip took 30 years to complete. Continents have detectable drift in the time it will take for V'ger to reach the nearest star. Frankly, any civilization that has the ability to cross that distance with anything advanced enough to do us harm is technologically superior to us enough to make us irrelevant or at least inconsequential.
or if they're lucky IBM In 2006, IBM had a net income of 12 Billion on 38 Billion in revenue. That is not quite as profitable as MSFT's 18 Billion on 40 Billion on revenue but IBM sells hardware which is always lower margin.
If MSFT were to "go the way of... IBM" they would fall all the way from the 7th most profitable company to #16.
Worse things could happen to MSFT than to become like IBM. IBM is a very different company than they used to be but they are still a player on the level of MSFT. Bill et al are just more popular targets right now.
Also another advantage is no one wants to use it. So no one is using my damned computer when I'm not around. My desktop at work includes a Logitech Marble+, an MS Natural keyboard and one of those ergonomic chairs on which you kneel instead of sit. NOBODY even thinks about dealing with all that weirdness.
1 GB of PC3200 DDR currently runs about $65 each or $260 total for "optimal" Vista performance. That hardly requires the deep pockets of a "sugar daddy."
not claimed by the people who did the lolita type searches? Even if was dumb enough to submit that in a search engine I certainly am not going to step up and say "Yep. Those are my searches" to claim a share. I guess the searcher could use the settlement to hire a criminal defense attorney though.
Thank you. Although poorly implemented (or effectively implemented with lots of unexpected "features") the whole point of ActiveX is to make the browser a far more useful tool through extensibility. In my context, developing in a corporate environment with enforced application standards, I can use IE as a far more effective tool because of ActiveX.
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As a Texas-Ex, I have to add "How about them Longhorns!"
I know this is only in a lab but I've been of the opinion for a long time that the solution to some of our problems would come from the biology side of the house. The CO2 content of the atmosphere could be significantly reduced if we could only turn CO2 gas into solid carbon. We don't really even know *how* to do this and yet simple plants do it every day using nothing more expensive than solar power. A bacteria or algae that consumes CO2 and produces fuel would be the ultimate in low impact yet renewable fuel. It isn't perpetual motion because it uses energy from the sun but last time I checked that isn't running out, situated in violent third world companies or consuming any non-renewable resources that have to be dug or pumped out of the ground.
In the cool list I have to go with Circus Atari over Breakout. My personal favorite was Kaboom! in part because I have yet to meet someone who has beaten my 45K high score. I know people are out there that have done it but I haven't met one yet.
In the real world, in 2006 the top 1% of income earners made 18% of the income yet paid 25% of the federal taxes, the top 5% made 33% and paid 43% and the top 10% made 44% and paid 55%. It looks to me like 10% of the population paid more than the other 90%, but don't let facts get in the way of your populist propaganda.
Every rose has its thorns...
I don't think one can "understand" the other. My guess would be that they would discontinue new models of one or the other, let the subscriber base of the loser decrease through attrition over time and then eventually offer rebates to the remaining subscribers to switch.
When I originally heard that this was going to happen I assumed it was to respond to the ability of Linux to run on older technology because it doesn't try to include everything and the kitchen sink into every install. Modularity cannot help but require a smaller resource footprint.
My second idea of why they would do it this way would be stability/security. If each piece has to exist on its own it should be easier to produce good code which should be both more stable and less exploit prone.
XM offers a service to pilots called XM Weather - Aviation that is invaluable to private pilots. Even though it takes a pretty high end GPS receiver to get the data (>$2k), the value of seeing winds aloft, freezing temperatures and storms can sometimes means the difference between literal life and death and there is no real time alternative.
I really don't think that at this time satellite radio offers any real competition to AM/FM radio because most people don't want to pay for radio when a decent alternative is available for free. For some, such as OTR truckers or long distance commuters, having continuity of radio programming is pretty nice.
If satellite radio was a service the general population couldn't do without I'd be very concerned about a monopoly situation but it isn't. From my POV, anything that keeps the XM weather active is okay by me.
As long as High School chics dig guitar players there will ALWAYS be a demand for guitars. GH3 isn't an instrument, its a guitar shaped gamepad, and a very limited one at that. Gibson has about as much to fear from GHx as The French Laundry does from Swanson TV Dinners.
Actually, The Church does not support "The Rhythm Method," it supports Natural Family Planning. There is a significant difference and it is extremely effective when followed correctly, something that is no more difficult than remembering to brush one's teeth every morning.
I'd be more inclined to say "admirable." Given that it is estimated that more than 10% of Mexico's GDP comes from money sent back home from the US he's doing everything he can to improve his economy. Just think about his situation: he gets to govern a country with an income that goes up when people leave the country. People who are out of the country don't consume servives or materials and don't commit crimes. He should be doing everything he can to keep people coming across Mexico's southern border.
Have you ever looked at our trade imabalance? If the US goes into a recession we stop buying from other countries. Sorry for not having more current numbers but our trade deficit in 2005 was around $800 Billion so it is probably pushing an even trillion now. That number is greater than the entire GDP of all but the top 10 or so economies around the world. If the US stops spending other countries get hurt in a hurry. How exactly do you expect IBM et al to sell to other countries when we aren't sending dollars their way with which to buy our products? As the US goes, so goes the world.
Yes, you are the only one. As a Sysadmin who has spent entirely too much time dealing with the effects of spam I would personally accept whatever responsibility required for the damage I would cause to someone who admitted to me that he was a spammer. I hope that the best thing that happens to him in prison is that he is given AIDS.
Assuming (and not such a big assumption) that other advanced species in the universe will emit detectable radiation it is fairly certain that no such entities exist in any close proximity to use. Just for argument's sake, lets say that intelligent life exists near Proxima Centauri. The farthest into space we have travelled is to the edge of the heliosphere, a mere 14.4 light hours away. That trip took 30 years to complete. Continents have detectable drift in the time it will take for V'ger to reach the nearest star. Frankly, any civilization that has the ability to cross that distance with anything advanced enough to do us harm is technologically superior to us enough to make us irrelevant or at least inconsequential.
1 GB of PC3200 DDR currently runs about $65 each or $260 total for "optimal" Vista performance. That hardly requires the deep pockets of a "sugar daddy."
not claimed by the people who did the lolita type searches? Even if was dumb enough to submit that in a search engine I certainly am not going to step up and say "Yep. Those are my searches" to claim a share. I guess the searcher could use the settlement to hire a criminal defense attorney though.
Thank you. Although poorly implemented (or effectively implemented with lots of unexpected "features") the whole point of ActiveX is to make the browser a far more useful tool through extensibility. In my context, developing in a corporate environment with enforced application standards, I can use IE as a far more effective tool because of ActiveX.